Two landmark quantum experiments have sharpened one of the oldest arguments in modern physics, and the verdict is not kind to ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

Albert Einstein’s so-called God letter first surfaced in 2008, when it fetched four hundred and four thousand dollars in a sale at a British auction house. The letter came back into the news earlier ...

The man was the smartest person on the planet. On his birthday, why not celebrate by quoting him and sounding brilliant?

Einstein’s quote feels especially relevant because many people feel disconnected from themselves. We are told what to want, how to live and when to feel successful. In the middle of this noise, ...

Although blogs and newspapers alike have oft posthumously placed a familiar quotation pertaining to compound interest — it being the most powerful force in the universe or man’s greatest invention — ...

The 54-page document co-written with engineer Michele Besso shows the foundations of Einstein’s famous theory of relativity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

For many years, online users shared an alleged quote from physicist Albert Einstein, claiming he once said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." The ...

The death of a public figure of Albert Einstein’s stature is the sort of event that, literally and figuratively, stops the presses. No scientist has been more famous, no antiwar activist ever argued ...

One hundred years after Albert Einstein made public his theory of general relativity, many of us struggle to understand it, though we take it and its legacy for physics and our understanding of the ...